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Sean Lowry is a Sydney-based visual artist, musician and writer. Lowry holds a PhD in Visual Arts from The University of Sydney and is currently Convenor of Creative and Performing Arts in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia. Lowry has exhibited, performed and presented extensively both nationally and internationally and his published writing appears in numerous international journals and edited volumes. His conceptually driven art practice employs strategies of concealed quotation, erasure, and subliminal appropriation in both traditional and expanded exhibition formats designed to operate at the outermost limits of recognition and specificity. Lowry is also the Founder and Executive Director of Project Anywhere: Art At The Outermost Limits Of Location-Specificity (www.projectanywhere.net). From September to December 2014, Lowry was Visiting Scholar/Artist at the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. http://www.seanlowry.com">www.seanlowry.com</a></p>

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Project Anywhere is an expanded global exhibition model in which the role of curator is replaced with the type of peer review model typically endorsed by a refereed journal. Emphasizing art and research undertaken outside traditional circuits, Project Anywhere is dedicated to the evaluation and dissemination of art and research at the outermost limits of location-specificity.

Project Anywhere endorses a rigorous two-stage peer review process. First, double blind evaluations of all project proposals by artist academics of international standing determines which projects will be hosted each year. A second open peer review process of project “outcomes” determines which projects are archived as “validated research” (all other hosted projects are placed in a general archive at the cessation of the hosting period).

Project Anywhere accepts proposals from artists and researchers working anywhere in the world. With only a handful of projects hosted each year, selection is very competitive. Please note that Project Anywhere does not provide funding nor expect exclusivity. Instead, Project Anywhere is designed to suit artist academics seeking independent peer-validation and international dissemination for their research. Project Anywhere also welcomes collaborative and curatorial projects or projects already hosted by other institutions seeking peer-validation. Project Anywhere has been developed in close consultation with an international editorial and advisory committee and is partnered with Parsons The New School for Design, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The University of Lincoln, The University of Newcastle, Auckland University of Technology, and The University of Melbourne.

Lowry's conceptually driven artistic practice employs strategies of concealed quotation designed to operate at the limits of recognition and specificity. Lowry's practice ranges from overpainted wall painting to dematerialised conceptualism, subliminally inflected electronic music, strategies of détournement, expanded painting and experimental sound and video. Lowry's research interests include art after appropriation, aesthetics after conceptualism, artistic production after postmodernism, creative arts pedagogy, and the role of sound in visually centered cultural formations.

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2014

Lowry SC, Douglas S, 'Art and Research At The Outermost Limits of Location-Specificity', Art and Research At The Outermost Limits of Location-Specificity November 13 -14, The Lang Center, School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design, a division of The New School, New York NY, USA., The Lang Center, School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design, a division of The New School, New York NY, USA. (2014)

Lowry SC, Cold War Memorial, Thought projection over Bering Strait 168°58¿37¿W published in Sean Lowry and Simone Douglas, Art and Research At The Outermost Limits of Location-Specificity, Parsons The New School for Design, New York NY, 2014. USA. ISBN 978-0-692-32296-3. (2014)

2014

Lowry SC, Taimre I, In Memory of Johnny B. Goode: A Radio Play by The Ghosts of Nothing, Saturday Night Séance, WGXC 90.7-FM and live stream at wgxc.org (see http://wavefarm.org/archive/kw3j9q)., New York (2014)

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2013 (1 grants)

Critique 2013: An International conference reflecting on creative practice in art, architecture, and design, Adelaide Australia, 26-29 November 2013$735Funding Body: University of Newcastle - Faculty of Education and Arts